Opinion | How to Make Americans Read Again
Walking up Madison Avenue during January’s polar vortex, I turned the corner onto 39th Street and hit a…
Season Pass – The New York Times
What is this stray weekend we find ourselves with between Memorial Day and June? A byproduct of this…
Inside Humorist David Sedaris’s Two Upper East Side Apartments
David Sedaris, wearing a blue-and-white striped shirt, a blazer and white pants sits at a desk in a…
Books Our Editors Loved This Week
Marilyn and Her Booksby Gail Crowther Crowther attempts to debunk Marilyn Monroe’s dumb-blonde reputation by way of her…
What to Read This Summer: NYT Reading Bucket List
Welcome, dear readers, to our second annual Summer Reading Bucket List! As the weather gets balmier, we’ve been…
What Happens When Militancy Conflicts With Motherhood
Ayers Dohrn openly admires his mother’s passionate devotion to causes (Black liberation, anticapitalism and antiwar activism) that she…
Book Review: ‘Dekonstructing the Kardashians,’ by MJ Corey
DEKONSTRUCTING THE KARDASHIANS: A New Media Manifesto, by MJ Corey MJ Corey, best known as TikTok’s resident Kardashian…
Mac Barnett Faces Blowback for His Criticism of Children’s Books
Mac Barnett, the national ambassador for young people’s literature, was running late. He’d been at Little, Brown to…
Was a Story That Just Won a Literary Prize A.I.-Generated?
Concerns over the increasingly widespread use of A.I. tools to assist with writing continue to roil the literary…
‘Strangers’ Author Belle Burden Doesn’t Want Eggs Outside Breakfast
Belle Burden has understandably grown tired of discussing the dissolution of her marriage, which is at the center…
‘The Future of Truth’ Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.
The author of a nonfiction book about the effects of artificial intelligence on truth acknowledged on Monday that…
In a New Memoir, Hayden Panettiere Relives the Drama
Hayden Panettiere did not want to sit still. Moments after she said hello via Zoom from her Los…